On this day: November 7

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid die in Bolivia, Marie Curie wins her second Nobel Prize, FDR wins an unprecedented fourth term, Steve McQueen dies, and Magic Johnson announces he is HIV-positive, all on this day.

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1989: L. Douglas Wilder wins the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the first elected black state governor in U.S. history. The first black governor of a U.S. state was P. B. S. Pinchback, who was not elected but succeeded as Louisiana governor on Dec. 9, 1872, upon the removal of his predecessor from office during Reconstruction.

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